The original post: /r/amitheasshole by /u/Aware_Banana_8180 on 2025-04-04 02:18:07.
Hello. I(20F) am not an animal person: I don't hate them and do like playing with them, but I'm not really responsible enough to have one and don't intend to have one.
My brother(32M) really loves animals. He has a "habit", I guess you can call it that, where he will impulsively bring an animal home, which I guess is how we ended up with five dogs and three cats. However, most of the time he's either in his room working from home or in his girlfriend's house, so essentially the main caretaker for the animals is dad(65M).
My brother did tell us about the rules for the animals. The most important are: "they only eat twice a day and if they don't start eating in five minutes you have to take the food away" and "they can't go inside, only in the yard".
However, last month I was returning home from work and I heard the new puppy crying. He is like three months old I think and he was looking at his food bowl. I put food for him and since the others were around I put it for them as well. Essentially it kept happening until it became habit for me to put food for them when I got home from work, and somehow this led to them being allowed in my room, and now the dogs sleep at the foot of my bed and the cats in my bookshelf every night.
My brother is very mad at me and everytime he notices he goes in my room to make them leave, and we are fighting because of it. I understand the animals are his and stuff, but the animals clearly like to sleep in my room and I don't mind them there. My room is separate from the rest of the house so it's not like it bothers the other occupants. I think he is the most mad about the feeding since he claims I will make them fat. He is making it clear that I am untraining them by breaking the rules.
My dad doesn't care and says my brother doesn't get an opinion because he isn't the one that buys food and cleans the poop for all the animals he brings home. My brother claims they are still theirs to decide what to do with. AITA?